Month: November 2006

theserverside.com have a news roundup of a lot of product annoucements from JBoss. It seems JBoss have been rather quiet since their buyout by RedHat, and maybe this is why.

Beta1 of JBoss Application Server 5.0 is out now, and the final release with Java EE 5.0 certification is targeted for the first half of 2007. Features and improvements in 5.0 include:</p

• AJAX-RPC1.1 implementation. JBoss Web Services supports all J2EE compliant Web Service apis
• improved performance, scalability and reliability of JBoss AS Clustering support
• JBoss Messaging – JMS 1.1 implementation
• JBoss Seam 1.1
• JBoss EJB3.0
• Hibernate 3.2 – the industy’s first JPA compliant ORM solution

This language usage survey was mentioned in the last JavaPosse podcast – I hadn’t looked at this for a while so it was interesting to see what’s going on with today’s languages. Tiobe Software compile a monthly ‘Programming Community Index’ based on availablity of advertised programming positions, resumes, training courses and vendors.

The index for November 2006 shows Java in the number 1 spot with a solid 20% rating, with the next closest, C, with 17%.

What is most interesting is that C#, Microsoft’s core language of the .NET platform is still trailing along in 8th with only 3% rating. This is surprising because you would think by now Microsoft would have their marketing machine pushing .NET and C# everywhere where they can get it, so it’s interesting to see that even after .NET has been in the market for a number of years now, adoption of the platform and their main language is still relatively low?

If you’ve been following the news over the last couple of weeks then you’ve heard that the Hotspot compiler and javac have been open sourced under the GPL license, Java EE has been relicensed from CDDL to GPL, and also ME has also been open-sourced.

What you may have missed amongst all this news though is that Duke, the Java mascot, was also open sourced. This is an unusual move to have a logo available as open source, but it means he can be developed and used by the community along with the terms of the license. And if you’re interested in shirts, check out the shirts currently available on CafePress.